Qualified Retirement Plan
BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT
158198 12/10
QUALIFIED RETIREMENT PLAN AND TRUST
BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT (EGTRRA)
Table Of Contents
DEFINITIONS ...1
ACP Test Safe Harbor Matching Contributions ...1
Actual Contribution Percentage (ACP) ...1
Actual Deferral Percentage (ADP) ...1
Adopting Employer ...1
Adoption Agreement ...1
ADP Test Safe Harbor Contributions ...1
Alternate Payee ...1
Annual Additions ...1
Annuity Starting Date...1
Basic Matching Contributions ...2
Basic Plan Document ...2
Beneficiary ...2
Break in Eligibility Service ...2
Break in Vesting Service ...2
Catch-Up Contributions...2
Code ...2
Compensation...2
Contributing Participant ...4
Contribution Percentage ...4
Contribution Percentage Amounts...4
Custodian...4
Deductible Employee Contributions...4
Deemed IRA...4
Deemed IRA Contributions...4
Deemed IRA Participant...4
Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation ...4
Designated Beneficiary ...4
Determination Date ...5
Determination Period ...5
Direct Rollover...5
Directed Trustee ...5
Disability ...5
Discretionary Trustee ...5
Distribution Calendar Year...5
Domestic Relations Order ...5
Earliest Retirement Age ...5
Early Retirement Age...5
Earned Income...5
Effective Date...5
Elapsed Time...6
Election Period ...6
Elective Deferrals ...6
Eligibility Computation Period...6
Eligible Employee ...7
Eligible Employer for SIMPLE 401(k) Plan ...7
Eligible Participant ...7
Eligible Retirement Plan...7
Eligible Rollover Distribution ...7
Employee...7
Employer ...8
Employer Contribution...8
Employer Money Purchase Pension Contribution...8
Employer Target Benefit Pension Contribution ...8
Employer Profit Sharing Contribution...8
Employment Commencement Date...8
Enhanced Matching Contributions ...8
Entry Dates...8
ERISA ...8
Excess Aggregate Contributions ...8
Excess Annual Additions ...8
Excess Contributions... 8
Excess Elective Deferrals... 8
Fiduciary ... 9
Forfeiture... 9
Fund ... 9
Highest Average Compensation ... 9
Highly Compensated Employee ... 9
Hours of Service... 9
Indirect Rollover ... 10
Individual Account... 10
Investment Fiduciary... 10
Investment Fund... 10
IRA Holder... 10
IRA Trustee (or Custodian)... 10
Key Employee... 10
Leased Employee ... 10
Life Expectancy ... 10
Limitation Year ... 11
Master or Prototype Plan... 11
Matching Contribution ... 11
Maximum Permissible Amount... 11
Month of Eligibility Service... 11
Nondeductible Employee Contributions ... 11
Normal Retirement Age ... 11
Owner-Employee ... 11
Participant ... 11
Participant’s Benefit... 11
Permissive Aggregation Group ... 12
Plan ... 12
Plan Administrator ... 12
Plan Sequence Number ... 12
Plan Year... 12
Pre-Age 35 Waiver... 12
Pre-Tax Elective Deferrals ... 12
Present Value ... 12
Prior Plan... 12
Projected Annual Benefit ... 12
Prototype Sponsor ... 12
Qualified Domestic Relations Order ... 13
Qualified Election ... 13
Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity ... 13
Qualified Matching Contributions... 14
Qualified Nonelective Contributions... 14
Qualified Preretirement Survivor Annuity ... 14
Qualifying Contributing Participant ... 14
Qualifying Employer Real Property ... 14
Qualifying Employer Security(ies)... 14
Qualifying Participant ... 14
Recipient ... 14
Required Aggregation Group ... 14
Required Beginning Date ... 14
Roth Elective Deferrals ... 15
Roth IRA... 15
Safe Harbor CODA ... 15
Safe Harbor Nonelective Contributions ... 15
Self-Employed Individual ... 15
Separate Fund... 15
Severance from Employment ... 15
SIMPLE 401(k) Year ... 15
SIMPLE IRA... 15
Spouse ... 15
Straight Life Annuity...15
Taxable Wage Base ...15
Termination of Employment ...15
Top-Heavy Plan...15
Traditional IRA ...16
Trustee ...16
Valuation Date...16
Vested ...16
Vested Account Balance...16
Year of Eligibility Service...16
Year of Vesting Service...16
SECTION ONE: EFFECTIVE DATES ...16
SECTION TWO: ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS ...16
2.01 Eligibility to Participate...16
2.02 Plan Entry ...17
2.03 Transfer To or From Ineligible Class...17
2.04 Return as a Participant After Break in Eligibility Service ...17
2.05 Determinations Under This Section ...17
2.06 Terms of Employment ...17
SECTION THREE: CONTRIBUTIONS ...18
3.01 Elective Deferrals ...18
3.02 Matching Contributions...20
3.03 Safe Harbor CODA ...20
3.04 Employer Contributions ...21
3.05 Qualified Nonelective Contributions ...28
3.06 Qualified Matching Contributions ...29
3.07 Rollover Contributions ...29
3.08 Transfer Contributions...29
3.09 Deductible Employee Contributions...30
3.10 Nondeductible Employee Contributions...30
3.11 Other Limitations on SIMPLE 401(k) Contributions ...30
3.12 Limitation on Allocations...30
3.13 Actual Deferral Percentage Test (ADP) ...32
3.14 Actual Contribution Percentage Test (ACP)...34
3.15 Deemed IRAs ...35
SECTION FOUR: VESTING AND FORFEITURES ...40
4.01 Determining the Vested Portion of Participant Individual Accounts...40
4.02 100 Percent Vesting of Certain Contributions ...42
4.03 Forfeitures and Vesting of Matching Contributions ...42
SECTION FIVE: DISTRIBUTIONS AND LOANS TO PARTICIPANTS ...42
5.01 Distributions ...42
5.02 Form of Distribution to a Participant...46
5.03 Distributions Upon the Death of a Participant ...46
5.04 Form of Distribution to Beneficiaries...47
5.05 Required Minimum Distribution Requirements ...47
5.06 Annuity Contracts...50
5.07 Distributions in-Kind...50
5.08 Procedure for Missing Participants or Beneficiaries...50
5.09 Claims Procedures ...50
5.10 Joint and Survivor Annuity Requirements...51
5.11 Liability for Withholding on Distributions ...52
5.12 Distribution of Excess Elective Deferrals...52
5.13 Distribution of Excess Contributions...53
5.14 Distribution of Excess Aggregate Contributions ...53
5.15 Recharacterization ...54
5.16 Loans To Participants ...54
©2008 Ascensus, Inc., Brainerd, MN SECTION SIX: DEFINITIONS... 55
SECTION SEVEN: MISCELLANEOUS... 55
7.01 The Fund ... 55
7.02 Individual Accounts ... 56
7.03 Powers and Duties of the Plan Administrator... 56
7.04 Expenses and Compensation ... 57
7.05 Information from Employer ... 57
7.06 Plan Amendments... 58
7.07 Plan Merger or Consolidation... 59
7.08 Permanency ... 59
7.09 Method and Procedure for Termination... 59
7.10 Continuance of Plan by Successor Employer ... 59
7.11 Failure of Plan Qualification ... 59
7.12 Governing Laws and Provisions... 60
7.13 State Community Property Laws... 60
7.14 Headings... 60
7.15 Gender and Number ... 60
7.16 Standard of Fiduciary Conduct... 60
7.17 General Undertaking of all Parties ... 60
7.18 Agreement Binds Heirs, Etc. ... 60
7.19 Determination of Top-Heavy Status... 60
7.20 Inalienability of Benefits ... 61
7.21 Bonding ... 61
7.22 Investment Authority... 62
7.23 Procedures and Other Matters Regarding Domestic Relations Orders... 64
7.24 Indemnification of Prototype Sponsor... 64
7.25 Military Service... 64
SECTION EIGHT: TRUSTEE AND CUSTODIAN... 65
8.01 Financial Organization as Custodian ... 65
8.02 Trustee... 67
8.03 Compensation and Expenses ... 69
8.04 No Obligation to Question Data ... 69
8.05 Resignation ... 69
8.06 Degree of Care – Limitations of Liability ... 70
8.07 Indemnification of Trustee and Custodian... 71
8.08 Miscellaneous... 71 SECTION NINE: ADOPTING EMPLOYER SIGNATURE . 71 AMENDMENTS AND APPENDIX...158198A AMENDMENTS: BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT
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QUALIFIED RETIREMENT PLAN AND TRUST
Defined Contribution Basic Plan Document 01
DEFINITIONS
When used in the Plan with initial capital letters, the following words and phrases have the meanings set forth below unless the context indicates that other meanings are intended.
ACP TEST SAFE HARBOR MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS Means Matching Contributions described in Plan Section 3.03(B). ACTUAL CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE (ACP)
Means the average of the Contribution Percentages of the Eligible Participants in a group of either Highly Compensated Employees or non- Highly Compensated Employees.
ACTUAL DEFERRAL PERCENTAGE (ADP)
Means, for a specified group of Participants (either Highly Compensated Employees or non-Highly Compensated Employees) for a Plan Year, the average of the ratios (calculated separately for each Participant in such group) of (1) the amount of Employer Contributions actually paid to the Fund on behalf of such Participant for the Plan Year to (2) the Participant’s Compensation for such Plan Year. For purposes of calculating the ADP, Employer Contributions on behalf of any Participant shall include: (1) any Elective Deferrals (other than Catch-up Contributions) made pursuant to the Participant’s salary deferral election or pursuant to automatic Elective Deferral enrollment, if applicable (including Excess Elective Deferrals of Highly Compensated Employees), but excluding (a) Excess Elective Deferrals of Participants who are non-Highly Compensated Employees that arise solely from Elective Deferrals made under the Plan or plans of this Employer and (b) Elective Deferrals that are taken into account in the Actual Contribution Percentage test (provided the ADP test is satisfied both before and after exclusion of these Elective Deferrals); and (2) if elected by the Employer, Qualified Nonelective Contributions and/or Qualified Matching Contributions. For purposes of computing Actual Deferral Percentages, an Employee who would be a Participant but for the failure to make Elective Deferrals shall be treated as a Participant on whose behalf no Elective Deferrals are made.
ADOPTING EMPLOYER
Means any corporation, sole proprietor, or other entity named in the Adoption Agreement and any successor who by merger, consolidation, purchase, or otherwise assumes the obligations of the Plan. The Adopting Employer shall be a named fiduciary for purposes of ERISA Section 402(a).
ADOPTION AGREEMENT
Means the document executed by the Adopting Employer through which it adopts the Plan and trust and thereby agrees to be bound by all terms and conditions of the Plan and trust.
ADP TEST SAFE HARBOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Means any Basic Matching Contributions, Enhanced Matching Contributions, and Safe Harbor Nonelective Contributions. ALTERNATE PAYEE
Means any Spouse, former Spouse, child, or other dependent of a Participant who is recognized by a Domestic Relations Order as having a right to receive all, or a portion of, the benefits payable under the Plan with respect to such Participant.
ANNUAL ADDITIONS
Means the sum of the following amounts credited to a Participant for the Limitation Year: a. Employer Contributions,
b. Nondeductible Employee Contributions, c. Forfeitures,
d. amounts allocated to an individual medical account, as defined in Code Section 415(l)(2), which is part of a pension or annuity plan maintained by the Employer. Also amounts derived from contributions paid or accrued which are attributable to post-retirement medical benefits, allocated to the separate account of a key employee (as defined in Code Section 419A(d)(3)), under a welfare benefit fund (as defined in Code Section 419(e)), maintained by the Employer,
e. amounts allocated under a simplified employee pension plan, f. Excess Contributions (including amounts recharacterized), and g. Excess Aggregate Contributions.
For this purpose, any Excess Annual Additions applied in Plan Section 3.12(A)(4) or 3.12(B)(6) in the Limitation Year to reduce Employer Contributions will be considered Annual Additions for such Limitation Year.
ANNUITY STARTING DATE
Means the first day of the first period for which an amount is paid as an annuity or any other form.
BASIC MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS
Means Matching Contributions made pursuant to the Safe Harbor CODA formula described in Section Three of the Adoption Agreement, if applicable.
BASIC PLAN DOCUMENT
Means this prototype Plan and trust document. BENEFICIARY
Means the individual(s) or entity(ies) designated pursuant to Plan Section Five. BREAK IN ELIGIBILITY SERVICE
Means a 12-consecutive month period which coincides with an Eligibility Computation Period during which an Employee fails to complete more than 500 Hours of Service (or such lesser number of Hours of Service specified in the Adoption Agreement for this purpose) or such periods specified in the Elapsed Time definition, if applicable.
BREAK IN VESTING SERVICE
Means a Plan Year (or other vesting computation period described in the definition of Year of Vesting Service) during which an Employee fails to complete more than 500 Hours of Service (or such lesser number of Hours of Service specified in the Adoption Agreement for this purpose) or such period specified in the Elapsed Time definition, if applicable.
CATCH-UP CONTRIBUTIONS
Means Elective Deferrals made pursuant to Plan Section Three, that are in excess of an otherwise applicable Plan limit and that are made by Participants who are age 50 or older by the end of their taxable years. An otherwise applicable Plan limit is a limit in the Plan that applies to Elective Deferrals without regard to Catch-up Contributions, such as the limits on Annual Additions, the dollar limitation on Elective Deferrals under Code Section 402(g) (not counting Catch-up Contributions), the limit imposed by the Actual Deferral Percentage (ADP) test under Code Section 401(k)(3), or any other allowable limit imposed by the Employer. Catch-up Contributions for a Participant for a taxable year may not exceed (1) the dollar limit on Catch-up Contributions under Code Section 414(v)(2)(B)(i) for the taxable year or (2) when added to other Elective Deferrals, an amount that would enable the Employer to satisfy other statutory or regulatory requirements (e.g., income tax withholding, FICA and FUTA withholding, etc.). The dollar limit on Catch-up Contributions in Code Section 414(v)(2)(B)(i) is $1,000 for taxable years beginning in 2002, increasing by $1,000 for each year thereafter up to $5,000 for taxable years beginning in 2006 and later years. After 2006, the $5,000 limit will be adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury for cost-of-living increases under Code Section 414(c)(2)(C). Any such adjustments will be in multiples of $500. Different limits apply to Catch-up Contributions under SIMPLE 401(k) Plans.
CODE
Means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended from time to time. COMPENSATION
A. General Definition
The following definition of Compensation shall apply.
As elected by the Adopting Employer in the Adoption Agreement (and if no election is made, W-2 wages will apply), Compensation shall mean one of the following:
1. W-2 wages – Compensation is defined as information required to be reported under Code Sections 6041, 6051, and 6052 (wages, tips, and other compensation as reported on Form W-2). Compensation is further defined as wages within the meaning of Code Section 3401(a) and all other payments of compensation to an Employee by the Employer (in the course of the Employer’s trade or business) for which the Employer is required to furnish the Employee a written statement under Code Sections 6041(d), 6051(a)(3), and 6052. Compensation must be determined without regard to any rules in Code Section 3401(a) that limit the remuneration included in wages based on the nature or location of the employment or the services performed (such as the exception for agricultural labor in Code Section 3401(a)(2)).
2. Section 3401(a) wages – Compensation is defined as wages within the meaning of Code Section 3401(a), for the purposes of income tax withholding at the source but determined without regard to any rules that limit the remuneration included in wages based on the nature or location of the employment or the services performed (such as the exception for agricultural labor in Code Section 3401(a)(2)).
3. 415 safe-harbor compensation – Compensation is defined as wages, salaries, and fees for professional services and other amounts received (without regard to whether or not an amount is paid in cash) for personal services actually rendered in the course of employment with the Employer maintaining the Plan to the extent that the amounts are includible in gross income (including, but not limited to, commissions paid to salespersons, compensation for services on the basis of a percentage of profits, commissions on insurance premiums, tips, bonuses, fringe benefits, and reimbursements or other expense allowances under a nonaccountable plan (as described in Treasury Regulation 1.62-2(c)), and excluding the following:
a. Employer contributions to a plan of deferred compensation which are not includible in the Employee’s gross income for the taxable year in which contributed, or employer contributions under a simplified employee pension plan to the extent such contributions are deductible by the Employee, or any distributions from a plan of deferred compensation;
b. Amounts realized from the exercise of a nonqualified stock option, or when restricted stock (or property) held by the Employee either becomes freely transferable or is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture;
c. Amounts realized from the sale, exchange, or other disposition of stock acquired under a qualified stock option; and d. Other amounts which received special tax benefits, or contributions made by the Employer (whether or not under a salary
reduction agreement) towards the purchase of an annuity contract described in Code Section 403(b) (whether or not the contributions are actually excludable from the gross income of the Employee).
For any Self-Employed Individual covered under the Plan, Compensation will mean Earned Income. B. Determination Period And Other Rules
Unless otherwise indicated in the Adoption Agreement or required by law or regulation, where an Employee becomes an Eligible Participant on any date subsequent to the first day of the applicable Determination Period, Compensation shall include only that Compensation paid to the Employee during the portion of the Determination Period they were an Eligible Participant, unless otherwise required by either the Code or ERISA (e.g., full year compensation used in the calculation of the minimum allocation in a Top-Heavy Plan). Except as otherwise provided in this Plan (e.g., continued coverage of disabled Participants), Compensation received by an Employee during a Determination Period in which the Employee does not perform services for the Employer will be disregarded.
Unless otherwise indicated in the Adoption Agreement, Compensation shall include (a) any amount which is contributed by the Employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement and which is not includible in the gross income of the Employee under Code Sections 125, 132(f)(4), 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B), 403(b); (b) compensation deferred under an eligible deferred compensation plan within the meaning of Code Section 457(b) (deferred compensation plans of state and local governments and tax-exempt organizations); and (c) employee contributions (under government plans) described in Code Section 414(h)(2) but shall not include deemed Code Section 125 compensation. For purposes of applying the limitations of Plan Section 3.12, Compensation for a Limitation Year is the Compensation actually paid or made available in gross income during such Limitation Year. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, Compensation for a defined contribution plan Participant who is permanently and totally disabled (as defined in Code Section 22(e)(3)) is the Compensation such Participant would have received for the Limitation Year if the Participant had been paid at the rate of Compensation paid immediately before becoming permanently and totally disabled. Compensation paid or made available during such Limitation Year shall include any elective deferral (as defined in Code Section 402(g)(3)) and any amount which is contributed or deferred by the Employer at the election of the Employee and which is not includible in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Code Section 125, 132(f), or 457.
If elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement, amounts under Code Section 125 include any amounts not available to a Participant in cash in lieu of group health coverage (deemed Code Section 125 compensation). An amount will be treated as an amount under Code Section 125 only if the Employer does not request or collect information regarding the Participants’ other health coverage as part of the enrollment process for the health plan.
For Limitation Years beginning after 2004, except as otherwise elected in the Adoption Agreement, payments made within 2½ months after Severance from Employment will be Compensation within the meaning of Code Section 415(c)(3) if they are payments that, absent a Severance from Employment, would have been paid to the Employee if the Employee continued in employment with the Employer and are regular compensation for services during the Employee’s regular working hours, compensation for services outside the Employee’s regular working hours (such as overtime or shift differential), commissions, bonuses, or other similar compensation. For Limitation Years beginning after 2004, except as otherwise elected in the Adoption Agreement, payments made within 2½ months after Severance from Employment will not be Compensation within the meaning of Code Section 415(c)(3) if they are payments for accrued bona fide sick, vacation, or other leave, but only if the Employee would have been able to use the leave if employment had continued. Any payments not described above are not considered Compensation if paid after Severance from Employment, even if they are paid within 2½ months following Severance from Employment, except for payments to an individual who does not currently perform services for the Employer by reason of qualified military service (within the meaning of Code Section 414(u)(1)) to the extent these payments do not exceed the amounts the individual would have received if the individual had continued to perform services for the Employer rather than entering qualified military service.
C. Compensation for ADP, ACP and Code Section 401(a)(4) Testing
Compensation for purposes of ADP, ACP and Code Section 401(a)(4) testing will be W-2 wages unless another definition of Compensation is elected on the Adoption Agreement for allocation and other general purposes or another definition is required by law or regulation. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Plan Administrator has the option from year to year to use a different definition of Compensation for testing purposes provided the definition of Compensation satisfies Code Section 414(s) and the regulations thereunder.
D. Limits On Compensation
The annual Compensation of each Participant taken into account in determining allocations shall not exceed $200,000, as adjusted for cost- of-living increases in accordance with Code Section 401(a)(17)(B). Annual Compensation means Compensation during the Plan Year or such other consecutive 12-month period over which Compensation is otherwise determined under the Plan (Determination Period). The cost-of-living adjustment in effect for the calendar year applies to annual Compensation for the Determination Period that begins with or within such calendar year.
If a Determination Period consists of fewer than 12 months, the annual Compensation limit is an amount equal to the otherwise applicable annual Compensation limit multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months in the short Determination Period, and the denominator of which is 12.
If Compensation for any prior Determination Period is taken into account in determining an Employee’s allocations or benefits for the current Determination Period, the Compensation for such prior Determination Period is subject to the applicable annual Compensation limit in effect for that prior period.
E. SIMPLE 401(k) Rules
Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, if an Eligible Employer has established a SIMPLE 401(k) plan, Compensation means, for purposes of the definition of Eligible Employer and for purposes of Plan Sections 3.01(H) and 3.02, the sum of the wages, tips, and other compensation from the Employer subject to federal income tax withholding (as described in Code Section 6051(a)(3)) and the Employee’s Elective Deferral contributions made under this or any other 401(k) plan, and, if applicable, elective deferrals under a Section 408(p) SIMPLE IRA plan, a SARSEP plan, or a Section 403(b) annuity contract and compensation deferred under a Code Section 457 plan, required to be reported by the Employer on Form W-2 (as described in Code Section 6051(a)(8)). Compensation also includes amounts paid for domestic service (as described in Code Section 3401(a)(3)).For Self-Employed Individuals, Compensation means net earnings from self-employment determined under Code Section 1402(a) before subtracting any contributions made under this Plan on behalf of the individual. The provisions of the Plan implementing the limit on Compensation under Code Section 401(a)(17) apply to the Compensation in Plan Sections 3.01(H) and 3.02.
F. Safe Harbor CODA Rules
Notwithstanding anything in this Plan to the contrary, if an Adopting Employer has elected in the Adoption Agreement to apply the Safe Harbor CODA provisions to this Plan, Compensation means Compensation as defined in this Definitions Section of the Plan and, if applicable, the definition of Compensation for allocation and other general purposes selected in the Adoption Agreement, except, for purposes of Section 3.03, no dollar limit, other than the limit imposed by Code Section 401(a)(17), applies to the Compensation of a non- Highly Compensated Employee. However, solely for purposes of determining the Compensation subject to a Participant’s salary reduction agreement, the Employer may use an alternative definition to the one described in the preceding sentence, provided such alternative definition is a reasonable definition within the meaning of Treasury Regulation 1.414(s)-1(d)(2) and permits each Participant to elect sufficient Elective Deferrals to receive the maximum amount of Matching Contributions (determined using the definition of Compensation described in the preceding sentence) available to the Participant under the Plan.
CONTRIBUTING PARTICIPANT
Means a Participant who has enrolled as a Contributing Participant pursuant to either Plan Sections 3.01 or 3.10 and on whose behalf the Employer is contributing Elective Deferrals to the Plan (or is making Nondeductible Employee Contributions).
CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE
Means the ratio (expressed as a percentage) of the Participant’s Contribution Percentage Amounts to the Participant’s Compensation for the Plan Year.
CONTRIBUTION PERCENTAGE AMOUNTS
Means the sum of the Nondeductible Employee Contributions, Matching Contributions, and Qualified Matching Contributions (to the extent not taken into account for purposes of the ADP test) made under the Plan on behalf of the Participant for the Plan Year. Such Contribution
Percentage Amounts shall not include Matching Contributions that are forfeited either to correct Excess Aggregate Contributions or because the contributions to which they relate are Excess Deferrals, Excess Contributions, Excess Aggregate Contributions, or Excess Annual Additions which are distributed pursuant to Plan Section 3.12(A)(4)(c).
The Employer may elect, in a uniform and nondiscriminatory manner, to use either Qualified Nonelective Contributions or Elective Deferrals, or both, in the Contribution Percentage Amounts. Elective Deferrals may only be included in the Contribution Percentage Amounts if the Plan passes the ADP test both before and after the exclusion of such Elective Deferrals.
CUSTODIAN
Means an entity appointed in the Adoption Agreement (or, if applicable, in a separate custodial agreement) by the Adopting Employer to hold the assets of the trust as Custodian or any duly appointed successor as provided in Plan Section 8.05.
DEDUCTIBLE EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS
Means any qualified voluntary employee contributions (as defined in Code Section 219(e)(2) made after December 31, 1981, in a taxable year beginning after such date and made for a taxable year beginning before January 1, 1987, and allowable as a deduction under Code Section 219(a) for such taxable year.
DEEMED IRA
Means a Traditional IRA or Roth IRA established under the Plan. DEEMED IRA CONTRIBUTIONS
Means any contribution (other than a mandatory contribution within the meaning of Code Section 411(c)(2)(C)) that is made to the Plan by a Deemed IRA Participant and with respect to which the Deemed IRA Participant has designated the contribution as a contribution to which Code Section 408(q) applies.
DEEMED IRA PARTICIPANT
Means a Participant, or if indicated in the Adoption Agreement, any Employee or group of Employees eligible to make contributions under the Plan and on whose behalf the Employer is contributing Deemed IRA Contributions.
DEFINED CONTRIBUTION DOLLAR LIMITATION Means $40,000, as adjusted under Code Section 415(d). DESIGNATED BENEFICIARY
Means the individual who is designated by the Participant (or the Participant’s surviving Spouse) as the Beneficiary of the Participant’s interest under the Plan and who is the designated Beneficiary under Code Section 401(a)(9) and Treasury Regulation 1.401(a)(9)-4.
DETERMINATION DATE
Means for any Plan Year after the first Plan Year, the last day of the preceding Plan Year. For the first Plan Year of the Plan, Determination Date means the last day of that year.
DETERMINATION PERIOD
Means, except as provided elsewhere in this Plan, the Plan Year unless the Adopting Employer has selected another period in the Adoption Agreement.
DIRECT ROLLOVER
Means a payment by the Plan to the Eligible Retirement Plan specified by the Recipient (or, if necessary pursuant to Plan Section 5.01(B)(1), an individual retirement account (IRA) under Code Sections 408(a), 408(b), or 408A (for Roth Elective Deferrals), as selected by the Adopting Employer in the Adoption Agreement).
DIRECTED TRUSTEE
Means the Trustee that is designated as the Directed Trustee in the Adoption Agreement. The Directed Trustee shall be responsible for investing the Fund and performing the responsibilities of the Trustee set forth in the Plan in accordance with specific instructions provided by the Adopting Employer or the Plan Administrator (or Participant or Beneficiary) in accordance with instructions (either in writing or in any other form permitted by rules promulgated by the IRS or DOL) from one of the foregoing.
DISABILITY
Unless the Adopting Employer has elected a different definition in the Adoption Agreement or as otherwise provided in the Plan, Disability means the inability to engage in any substantial, gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment that can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months. The permanence and degree of such impairment shall be supported by medical evidence satisfactory to the Plan Administrator.
DISCRETIONARY TRUSTEE
Means a Trustee that is designated as a Discretionary Trustee in the Adoption Agreement and enters into an agreement with the Adopting Employer whereby the Trustee and not the Adopting Employer will select the appropriate investments for the Fund in accordance with the Plan’s funding policy statement or will perform such other tasks identified in such agreement between the Trustee and Adopting Employer.
DISTRIBUTION CALENDAR YEAR
Means a calendar year for which a minimum distribution is required. For distributions beginning before the Participant’s death, the first Distribution Calendar Year is the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year which contains the Participant’s Required Beginning Date. For distributions beginning after the Participant’s death, the first Distribution Calendar Year is the calendar year in which distributions are required to begin pursuant to Plan Section 5.05(D). The required minimum distribution for the Participant’s first Distribution Calendar Year will be made on or before the Participant’s Required Beginning Date. The required minimum distribution for other Distribution Calendar Years, including the required minimum distribution for the Distribution Calendar Year in which the Participant’s Required Beginning Date occurs, will be made on or before December 31 of that Distribution Calendar Year.
DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER
Means any judgment, decree, or order (including approval of a property settlement agreement) that:
a. relates to the provision of child support, alimony payments, or marital property rights to a spouse, former spouse, child, or other dependent of a Participant, and
b. is made pursuant to state domestic relations law (including applicable community property laws). EARLIEST RETIREMENT AGE
Means, for purposes of the Qualified Joint and Survivor Annuity provisions of the Plan, the earliest date on which, under the Plan, the Participant could elect to receive retirement benefits.
EARLY RETIREMENT AGE
Means the age specified in the Adoption Agreement. The Plan will not have an Early Retirement Age if none is specified in the Adoption Agreement.
EARNED INCOME
Means the net earnings from self-employment in the trade or business with respect to which the Plan is established, for which personal services of the individual are a material income-producing factor. Net earnings will be determined without regard to items not included in gross income and the deductions allocable to such items. Net earnings are reduced by contributions by the Employer to a qualified plan to the extent deductible under Code Section 404.
Net earnings shall be determined with regard to the deduction allowed to the Employer by Code Section 164(f). EFFECTIVE DATE
Means the date the Plan or amendment or restatement of the Plan becomes effective as indicated in the Adoption Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless otherwise provided in this Basic Plan Document, the Effective Date of mandatory Plan changes resulting from the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) and the Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002 (JCWAA) shall be the later of the original Effective Date of the Plan or the first day of the Plan Year in which the legislative or regulatory change became effective. For optional changes made available by EGTRRA, the Effective Date shall be the date the plan began to operate in accordance with such optional change, as indicated by a Plan amendment if a written amendment was required for such change.
ELAPSED TIME – Means
A. Special Rules Where Elapsed Time Method is Being Used
If elected by the Adopting Employer in the Adoption Agreement, the following definition of Elapsed Time shall apply for purposes of determining service. When this definition applies, the definitions of break in service and hour of service in the Elapsed Time definition will replace the definitions of Break in Eligibility Service, Break in Vesting Service, and Hours of Service found in the Definitions Section of the Plan.
For purposes of determining an Employee’s initial or continued eligibility to participate in the Plan or the Vested interest in the Participant’s Individual Account balance derived from Employer Contributions, an Employee will receive credit for the aggregate of all time periods commencing with the Employee’s first day of employment or reemployment and ending on the date a break in service begins. The first day of employment or reemployment is the first day the Employee performs an hour of service. An Employee will also receive credit for any period of severance of less than 12 consecutive months. Fractional periods of a year will be expressed in terms of months or days. For purposes of this definition, hour of service will mean each hour for which an Employee is paid or entitled to payment for the
performance of duties for the Employer. Break in service is a period of severance of at least 12 consecutive months. Period of severance is a continuous period of time during which the Employee is not employed by the Employer. Such period begins on the date the Employee retires, quits, or is discharged, or if earlier, the 12-month anniversary of the date on which the Employee was otherwise first absent from service.
In the case of an individual who is absent from work for maternity or paternity reasons, the 12-consecutive month period beginning on the first anniversary of the first date of such absence shall not constitute a break in service. For purposes of this Elapsed Time definition, an absence from work for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence 1) by reason of the pregnancy of the individual, 2) by reason of the birth of a child of the individual, 3) by reason of the placement of a child with the individual in connection with the adoption of such child by such individual, or 4) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. Each Employee will share in Employer Contributions for the period beginning on the date the Employee commences participation under the Plan and ending on the date on which such Employee severs employment with the Employer or is no longer a member of an eligible class of Employees.
If the Employer is a member of an affiliated service group (under Code Section 414(m)), a controlled group of corporations (under Code Section 414(b)), a group of trades or businesses under common control (under Code Section 414(c)), or any other entity required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to Code Section 414(o), service will be credited for any employment for any period of time for any other member of such group. Service will also be credited for any individual required under Code Section 414(n) or Code Section 414(o) to be considered an Employee of any Employer aggregated under Code Section 414(b), (c), or (m).
B. Changes In Methods of Crediting Service
The Plan may be amended to change the method of crediting service between the general rules discussed in this Elapsed Time definition and the Hours of Service method discussed in the Hours of Service definition provided each Employee with respect to whom the method of crediting service is changed is afforded the protection described in Treasury Regulation 1.410(a)-7(g) and other applicable rules promulgated by the IRS.
ELECTION PERIOD
Means the period which begins on the first day of the Plan Year in which the Participant attains age 35 and ends on the date of the Participant’s death. If a Participant separates from service before the first day of the Plan Year in which age 35 is attained, with respect to the account balance as of the date of separation, the Election Period shall begin on the date of separation.
ELECTIVE DEFERRALS
Means any Employer Contributions made either as a Pre-Tax Elective Deferral or, effective on or after January 1, 2006, as a Roth Elective Deferral to the Plan at the election of the Participant or pursuant to automatic Elective Deferral enrollment, in lieu of cash compensation, and shall include contributions made pursuant to a salary reduction agreement. With respect to any taxable year, a Participant’s Elective Deferrals are the sum of all Employer contributions made on behalf of such Participant pursuant to an election to defer under any qualified cash or deferred arrangement as described in Code Section 401(k), any simplified employee pension plan cash or deferred arrangement as described in Code Section 408(k)(6), any SIMPLE IRA Plan described in Code Section 408(p), any plan as described under Code Section 501(c)(18), any Employer contributions made on the behalf of a Participant for the purchase of an annuity contract under Code Section 403(b) pursuant to a salary reduction agreement. Elective Deferrals shall not include any deferrals properly distributed as Excess Annual Additions.
No Participant shall be permitted to have Elective Deferrals made under this Plan, or any other qualified plan maintained by the Employer, during any taxable year of the Participant, in excess of the dollar limitation contained in Code Section 402(g) in effect at the beginning of such taxable year. In the case of a Participant age 50 or over by the end of the taxable year, the dollar limitation described in the preceding sentence is increased by the amount of Elective Deferrals that can be Catch-up Contributions. The dollar limitation contained in Code Section 402(g) is
$10,500 for taxable years beginning in 2000 and 2001 increasing to $11,000 for taxable years beginning in 2002 and increasing by $1000 for each year thereafter up to $15,000 for taxable years beginning in 2006 and later years. After 2006, the $15,000 limit will be adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury for cost-of-living increases under Code Section 402(g)(4). Any adjustments will be in multiples of $500. ELIGIBILITY COMPUTATION PERIOD
Means, with respect to an Employee’s initial Eligibility Computation Period, the 12-consecutive month period commencing on the Employee’s Employment Commencement Date. Unless otherwise specified in the Adoption Agreement, the Employee’s subsequent Eligibility Computation Periods shall be the Plan Year commencing with the Plan Year beginning during the Employee’s initial Eligibility Computation Period. An Employee shall not be credited with a Year of Eligibility Service before the end of the 12-consecutive month period regardless of when during such period the Employee completes the required number of Hours of Service.
ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE
Means, if the Employer has adopted a SIMPLE 401(k) Plan, any Employee who is entitled to make Elective Deferrals under the terms of the Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Employer has elected to apply the Safe Harbor CODA provisions of Plan Section 3.03, Eligible Employee means an Employee eligible to make Elective Deferrals under the Plan for any part of the Plan Year or who would be eligible to make Elective Deferrals but for a suspension due to a hardship distribution described in Plan Section 5.01(C)(2) or to statutory limitations, such as Code Sections 402(g) and 415.
ELIGIBLE EMPLOYER FOR SIMPLE 401(k) PLAN
Means, with respect to any SIMPLE 401(k) Year, an Employer that had no more than 100 Employees who received at least $5,000 of Compensation, or such lesser amount indicated in the Adoption Agreement, from the Employer for the preceding SIMPLE 401(k) Year and is therefore eligible to establish a SIMPLE 401(k) Plan. In applying the preceding sentence, all Employees of controlled groups of corporations under Code Section 414(b), all Employees of trades or businesses (whether incorporated or not) under common control under Code Section 414(c), all Employees of affiliated service groups under Code Section 414(m), and Leased Employees required to be treated as the Employer’s Employees under Code Section 414(n), are taken into account.
An Eligible Employer that adopts a SIMPLE 401(k) and that fails to be an Eligible Employer for any subsequent SIMPLE 401(k) Year, is treated as an Eligible Employer for the two SIMPLE 401(k) Years following the last SIMPLE 401(k) Year the Employer was an Eligible Employer. If the failure is due to any acquisition, disposition, or similar transaction involving an Eligible Employer, the preceding sentence applies only if the provisions of Code Section 410(b)(6)(C)(i) are satisfied.
ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANT
Means any Employee who is eligible to make a Nondeductible Employee Contribution or an Elective Deferral (if the Employer takes such contributions into account in the calculation of the Contribution Percentages), or to receive a Matching Contribution (including Forfeitures) or a Qualified Matching Contribution.
If a Nondeductible Employee Contribution is required as a condition of participation in the Plan, any Employee who would be a Participant in the Plan if such Employee made such a contribution shall be treated as an Eligible Participant on behalf of whom no Nondeductible Employee Contributions are made.
ELIGIBLE RETIREMENT PLAN
Means, for purposes of the Direct Rollover provisions of the Plan, an individual retirement account described in Code Sections 408(a) or 408A, an individual retirement annuity described in Code Section 408(b), an annuity plan described in Code Section 403(a), an annuity contract described in Code Section 403(b), an eligible plan under Code Section 457(b) which is maintained by a state, political subdivision of a state, or an agency or instrumentality of a state or political subdivision of a state (and which agrees to separately account for amounts transferred into such plan from this Plan), or a qualified trust described in Code Section 401(a) that accepts the Recipient’s Eligible Rollover Distribution. The definition of Eligible Retirement Plan shall also apply in the case of a distribution to a surviving Spouse, or to a Spouse or former Spouse who is the Alternate Payee under a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, as defined in Code Section 414(p).
If any portion of an Eligible Rollover Distribution is attributable to payments or distributions from a designated Roth account, an Eligible Retirement Plan with respect to such portion shall include only another designated Roth account of the individual from whose account the payments or distributions were made, or a Roth IRA of such individual.
ELIGIBLE ROLLOVER DISTRIBUTION
Means any distribution of all or any portion of the balance to the credit of the Recipient, except that an Eligible Rollover Distribution does not include a. any distribution that is one of a series of substantially equal periodic payments (paid at least annually) made for the life (or Life Expectancy) of the Recipient or the joint lives (or joint life expectancies) of the Recipient and the Recipient’s Designated Beneficiary, or for a specified period of ten years or more;
b. any distribution to the extent such distribution is required under Code Section 401(a)(9);
c. the portion of any other distribution that is not includible in gross income (determined without regard to the exclusion for net unrealized appreciation with respect to employer securities);
d. any hardship distribution described in Plan Section 5.01(C)(2); and
e. any other distribution(s) that is reasonably expected to total less than $200 during a year.
For distributions made after December 31, 2001, a portion of a distribution shall not fail to be an Eligible Rollover Distribution merely because the portion consists of after-tax employee contributions which are not includible in gross income. However, such portion may be transferred only to an individual retirement account or annuity described in Code Section 408(a) or (b), or to a qualified defined contribution plan described in Code Section 401(a) or 403(a) that agrees to separately account for amounts so transferred, including separately accounting for the portion of such distribution which is includible in gross income and the portion of such distribution which is not so includible.
EMPLOYEE
Means any person employed by an Employer maintaining the Plan or by any other employer required to be aggregated with such Employer under Code Sections 414(b), (c), (m) or (o).
The term Employee shall also include any Leased Employee deemed to be an Employee of any Employer described in the previous paragraph as provided in Code Sections 414(n) or (o).
EMPLOYER
Means the Adopting Employer, related employers listed on a Related Employer Participation Form, and in cases where no Related Employer Participation Form is available (e.g. a standardized plan), all members of a controlled group of corporations (as defined in Code Section 414(b) as modified by Code Section 415(h)), all commonly controlled trades or businesses (as defined in Code Section 414(c) as modified by Code Section 415(h)) or affiliated service groups (as defined in Code Section 414(m)) of which the Adopting Employer is a part, and any other entity required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to Treasury regulations under Code Section 414(o). A partnership is considered to be the Employer of each of the partners and a sole proprietorship is considered to be the Employer of a sole proprietor.
EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTION
Means the amount contributed by the Employer each year as determined under this Plan. The term Employer Contribution shall include Elective Deferrals made to the Plan unless such contributions are intended to be excluded for purposes of either the Plan or any act under the Code, ERISA, or any additional rules, regulations, or other pronouncements promulgated by either the IRS or DOL.
EMPLOYER MONEY PURCHASE PENSION CONTRIBUTION
Means an Employer Contribution made pursuant to the section of the Money Purchase Pension Plan Adoption Agreement titled “Employer Money Purchase Pension Contributions.” The Employer must make Employer Money Purchase Pension Contributions without regard to current or accumulated earnings or profits.
EMPLOYER TARGET BENEFIT PENSION CONTRIBUTION
Means an Employer Contribution made pursuant to the section of the Target Benefit Pension Plan Adoption Agreement titled “Employer Target Benefit Pension Contributions.” The Employer must make Employer Target Benefit Pension Contributions without regard to current or accumulated earnings or profits.
EMPLOYER PROFIT SHARING CONTRIBUTION
Means an Employer Contribution made pursuant to the section of the Adoption Agreement titled “Employer Profit Sharing Contributions.” The Employer may make Employer Profit Sharing Contributions without regard to current or accumulated earnings or profits, unless otherwise indicated in the Adoption Agreement.
EMPLOYMENT COMMENCEMENT DATE
Means, with respect to an Employee, the date such Employee first performs an Hour of Service for the Employer. ENHANCED MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS
Means Matching Contributions described in Code Section 401(k)(12)(B)(iii) and made pursuant to the Safe Harbor CODA formula elected by the Employer in the Adoption Agreement.
ENTRY DATES
Means the first day of the Plan Year and the first day of the seventh month of the Plan Year, unless the Adopting Employer has specified different dates in the Adoption Agreement.
ERISA
Means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 as amended from time to time. EXCESS AGGREGATE CONTRIBUTIONS
Means, with respect to any Plan Year, the excess of
a. the aggregate Contribution Percentage Amounts taken into account in computing the numerator of the Contribution Percentage actually made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year, over
b. the maximum Contribution Percentage Amounts permitted by the ACP test (determined by hypothetically reducing contributions made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees in order of their Contribution Percentages beginning with the highest of such percentages). Such determination shall be made after first determining Excess Elective Deferrals pursuant to the definition provided herein and then determining Excess Contributions pursuant to the definition provided herein.
EXCESS ANNUAL ADDITIONS
Means the excess of the Participant’s Annual Additions for the Limitation Year over the Maximum Permissible Amount. EXCESS CONTRIBUTIONS
Means, with respect to any Plan Year, the excess of
a. the aggregate amount of Employer Contributions actually taken into account in computing the ADP of Highly Compensated Employees for such Plan Year, over
b. the maximum amount of such contributions permitted by the ADP test (determined by hypothetically reducing contributions made on behalf of Highly Compensated Employees in order of the ADPs, beginning with the highest of such percentages).
EXCESS ELECTIVE DEFERRALS
Means those Elective Deferrals that either (1) are made during the Participant’s taxable year and exceed the dollar limitation under Code Section 402(g) (increased, if applicable, by the dollar limitation on Catch-up Contributions defined in Code Section 414(v)) for such year; or (2) are made during a calendar year and exceed the dollar limitation under Code Section 402(g) (increased, if applicable, by the dollar limitation on Catch-up Contributions defined in Code Section 414(v)) for the Participant’s taxable year beginning in such calendar year, counting only Elective Deferrals made under this Plan and any other plan, contract or arrangement maintained by the Employer. Excess Elective Deferrals shall be treated as Annual Additions under the Plan, unless such amounts are distributed no later than the first April 15 following the close of the Participant’s taxable year.
FIDUCIARY
Means a person who exercises any discretionary authority or control with respect to management of the Plan, renders investment advice as defined in ERISA Section 3(21) or has any discretionary authority or responsibility regarding the administration of the Plan. The Employer and such other individuals either appointed by the Employer or deemed to be fiduciaries as a result of their actions shall serve as Fiduciaries under this Plan and fulfill the fiduciary responsibilities described in Part 4, Title I of ERISA.
FORFEITURE
Means that portion of a Participant’s Individual Account derived from Employer Contributions that the Participant is not entitled to receive (i.e., the nonvested portion).
FUND
Means the Plan assets held by the Trustee (or Custodian, if applicable) for the Participants’ exclusive benefit. HIGHEST AVERAGE COMPENSATION
Means the average compensation for the three consecutive years of service with the Employer that produces the highest average. HIGHLY COMPENSATED EMPLOYEE
Means any Employee who 1) was a five-percent owner at any time during the year or the preceding year, or 2) for the preceding year had Compensation from the Employer in excess of $80,000 and, if elected by the Adopting Employer in the Adoption Agreement, was in the top-paid group for the preceding year. The $80,000 amount is adjusted at the same time and in the same manner as under Code Section 415(d), except that the base period is the calendar quarter ending September 30, 1996.
For this purpose the applicable year of the Plan for which a determination is being made is called a determination year and the preceding 12- month period is called a look-back year unless the Adopting Employer has made a calendar year data election in the Adoption Agreement. If a calendar year data election is made, the look-back year shall be the calendar year ending within the Plan Year for purposes of determining who is a Highly Compensated Employee (other than as a five-percent owner).
A highly compensated former employee is based on the rules applicable to determining Highly Compensated Employee status as in effect for that determination year, in accordance with Treasury Regulation 1.414(q)-1T, A-4, Notice 97-45 and any subsequent guidance issued by the IRS. The determination of who is a Highly Compensated Employee, including, but not limited to, the determinations of the number and identity of Employees in the top-paid group and the Compensation that is considered, will be made in accordance with Code Section 414(q) and the regulations thereunder.
HOURS OF SERVICE – Means
A. General Rules for Crediting Hours of Service
1. Each hour for which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, for the performance of duties for the Employer. These hours will be credited to the Employee for the computation period in which the duties are performed; and
2. Each hour for which an Employee is paid, or entitled to payment, by the Employer on account of a period of time during which no duties are performed (irrespective of whether the employment relationship has terminated) due to vacation, holiday, illness, incapacity (including Disability), layoff, jury duty, military duty or leave of absence. No more than 501 Hours of Service will be credited under this paragraph for any single continuous period (whether or not such period occurs in a single computation period). Hours under this paragraph shall be calculated and credited pursuant to Labor Regulation Section 2530.200b-2 which is incorporated herein by this reference.
3. Each hour for which back pay, irrespective of mitigation of damages, is either awarded or agreed to by the Employer. The same Hours of Service will not be credited both under paragraph (1) or paragraph (2), as the case may be, and under this paragraph (3). These hours will be credited to the Employee for the computation period or periods to which the award or agreement pertains rather than the computation period in which the award, agreement, or payment is made.
4. Solely for purposes of determining whether a Break in Eligibility Service or a Break in Vesting Service has occurred in a computation period (the computation period for purposes of determining whether a Break in Vesting Service has occurred is the Plan Year or other vesting computation period described in the definition of a Year of Vesting Service), an individual who is absent from work for maternity or paternity reasons shall receive credit for the Hours of Service which would otherwise have been credited to such individual but for such absence, or in any case in which such hours cannot be determined, eight Hours of Service per day of such absence. For purposes of this paragraph, an absence from work for maternity or paternity reasons means an absence 1) by reason of the pregnancy of the individual, 2) by reason of a birth of a child of the individual, 3) by reason of the placement of a child with the individual in connection with the adoption of such child by such individual, or 4) for purposes of caring for such child for a period beginning immediately following such birth or placement. The Hours of Service credited under this paragraph shall be credited 1) in the Eligibility Computation Period or Plan Year or other vesting computation period described in the definition of a Year of Service in which the absence begins if the crediting is necessary to prevent a Break in Eligibility Service or a Break in Vesting Service in the applicable period, or 2) in all other cases, in the following Eligibility Computation Period or Plan Year or other vesting computation period described in the definition of a Year of Service. 5. Hours of Service will be credited for employment with other members of an affiliated service group (under Code Section 414(m)), a
controlled group of corporations (under Code Section 414(b)), or a group of trades or businesses under common control (under Code Section 414(c)) of which the Adopting Employer is a member, and any other entity required to be aggregated with the Employer pursuant to Code Section 414(o) and the regulations thereunder.
Hours of Service will also be credited for any individual considered an Employee for purposes of this Plan under Code Sections 414(n) or 414(o) and the regulations thereunder.
6. Where the Employer maintains the plan of a predecessor employer, service for such predecessor employer shall be treated as service for the Employer. If the Employer does not maintain the plan of a predecessor employer, service for such predecessor employer will not be treated as service for the Employer unless specifically elected in the Adoption Agreement.
7. The above method for determining Hours of Service may be altered as specified in the Adoption Agreement.
8. Hours of Service shall apply unless the Adopting Employer has indicated in the Adoption Agreement that a method other than Hours of Service will be used for determining service.
B. Changes In Methods of Crediting Service
The Plan may be amended to change the method of crediting service between the general rules discussed in paragraph (A) and the Elapsed Time method discussed in the Elapsed Time definition provided each Employee with respect to whom the method of crediting service is changed is afforded the protection described in Treasury Regulation 1.410(a)-7(g) and other applicable rules promulgated by the IRS. INDIRECT ROLLOVER
Means a rollover contribution received by this Plan from an Employee that previously received a distribution from another plan rather than having such amount directly rolled over to this Plan from the distributing plan.
INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNT
Means the account established and maintained under this Plan for each Participant in accordance with Plan Section 7.02(A). INVESTMENT FIDUCIARY
Means the Employer, a Trustee with full trust powers, any Individual Trustee(s), or any investment manager, as applicable, that under the terms of the Plan is vested with the responsibility and authority to select investment options for the Plan and to direct the investment of the assets of the Fund. In no event shall a Custodian or a Directed Trustee be an Investment Fiduciary for any purpose whatsoever.
INVESTMENT FUND
Means a subdivision of the Fund established pursuant to Plan Section 7.01(B). IRA HOLDER
Means an Employee who has established a Deemed IRA. IRA TRUSTEE (OR CUSTODIAN)
Means the bank or savings and loan association, as defined in Code Section 408(n), or any person who has the approval of the IRS to act as Trustee, or their successor.
KEY EMPLOYEE
Means, for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2001, any Employee or former Employee (including any deceased Employee) who at any time during the Plan Year that includes the Determination Date is an officer of the Employer and whose annual compensation is greater than $130,000 (as adjusted under Code Section 416(i)(1) for Plan Years beginning after December 31, 2002), a five percent owner of the Employer, or a one- percent owner of the Employer who has annual compensation of more than $150,000. For Plan Years beginning on or after January 1, 2001, except as otherwise provided in the Adoption Agreement, Compensation shall also include elective amounts that are not includible in the gross income of the Employee by reason of Code Section 132(f)(4).
In determining whether a plan is top-heavy for Plan Years beginning before January 1, 2002, Key Employee means any Employee or former Employee (including any deceased Employee) who at any time during the five-year period ending on the Determination Date, is an officer of the Employer having annual compensation that exceeds 50 percent of the dollar limitation under Code Section 415(b)(1)(A), an owner (or considered an owner under Code Section 318) of one of the ten largest interests in the Employer if such Participant’s compensation exceeds 100 percent of the dollar limitation under Code Section 415(c)(1)(A), a five-percent owner of the Employer, or a one-percent owner of the Employer who has annual compensation of more than $150,000. Annual compensation means compensation as defined in Code Section 415(c)(3), but including amounts contributed by the Employer pursuant to a salary reduction agreement which are excludable from the Employee’s gross income in Code Sections 125, 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B) 403(b). The determination period is the Plan Year containing the Determination Date and the four preceding Plan Years.
The determination of who is a Key Employee will be made in accordance with Code Section 416(i)(1) and the Treasury Regulations thereunder. LEASED EMPLOYEE
Means, any person (other than an Employee of the recipient Employer) who, pursuant to an agreement between the recipient Employer and any other person (“leasing organization”), has performed services for the recipient Employer (or for the recipient Employer and related persons determined in accordance with Code Section 414(n)(6)) on a substantially full time basis for a period of at least one year, and such services are performed under primary direction or control by the recipient Employer. Contributions or benefits provided to a Leased Employee by the leasing organization which are attributable to services performed for the recipient Employer shall be treated as provided by the recipient Employer. A Leased Employee shall not be considered an Employee of the recipient if: (1) such Leased Employee is covered by a money purchase pension plan providing a) a nonintegrated employer contribution rate of at least 10 percent of compensation, as defined in Code Section 415(c)(3), but including amounts contributed pursuant to a salary reduction agreement, which are excludable from the Leased Employee’s gross income under Code Sections 125, 402(e)(3), 402(h)(1)(B) or 403(b), b) immediate participation, and c) full and immediate vesting; and (2) Leased Employees do not constitute more than 20 percent of the recipient’s non-Highly compensated work force.
LIFE EXPECTANCY
Means life expectancy as computed by using the Single Life Table in Treasury Regulation 1.401(a)(9)-9, Q&A-1.
LIMITATION YEAR
Means the Plan Year, unless the Adopting Employer has selected another 12-consecutive month period in the Adoption Agreement. All qualified plans maintained by the Employer must use the same Limitation Year. If the Limitation Year is amended to a different 12-consecutive month period, the new Limitation Year must begin on a date within the Limitation Year in which the amendment is made.
MASTER OR PROTOTYPE PLAN
Means a plan, the form of which is the subject of a favorable opinion letter from the IRS. MATCHING CONTRIBUTION
Means an Employer Contribution made to this or any other defined contribution plan on behalf of a Participant on account of an Elective Deferral or a Nondeductible Employee Contribution made by such Participant under a plan maintained by the Employer.
MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE AMOUNT
Means the maximum Annual Addition that may be contributed or allocated to a Participant’s Individual Account under the Plan for any Limitation Year.
For Limitation Years beginning before January 1, 2002, the Maximum Permissible Amount shall not exceed the lesser of a. the Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation, or
b. 25 percent of the Participant’s Compensation for the Limitation Year.
For Limitation Years beginning on or after January 1, 2002, except for Catch-up Contributions, the Maximum Permissible Amount shall not exceed the lesser of
a. $40,000, as adjusted for increases in the cost-of-living under Code Section 415(d), or
b. 100 percent of the Participant’s Compensation (within the meaning of Code Section 415(c)(3)) for the Limitation Year.
The compensation limitation referred to in (b) shall not apply to any contribution for medical benefits after separation from service (within the meaning of Code Section 401(h) or Section 419A(f)(2)) which is otherwise treated as an Annual Addition.
If a short Limitation Year is created because of an amendment changing the Limitation Year to a different 12-consecutive month period, the Maximum Permissible Amount will not exceed the Defined Contribution Dollar Limitation multiplied by the following fraction:
Number of months in the short Limitation Year 12
MONTH OF ELIGIBILITY SERVICE
Means the calendar month during which the Employee completes the number of Hours of Service designated in the Adoption Agreement. If the Adoption Agreement indicates a specific number of Months of Eligibility Service and no Hours of Service requirement is selected, the Employee will be deemed to be required to complete 83⅓ Hours of Service if actual hours are used to determine eligibility. If an Hours of Service requirement is designated per month, that number when multiplied by the number of Months of Eligibility Service indicated in the Adoption Agreement cannot exceed 1000. Employees not meeting the hours requirement within the initial number of months indicated in the Adoption Agreement will satisfy the Month of Eligibility Service requirement when they complete 1,000 Hours of Service within the Eligibility Computation Period.
NONDEDUCTIBLE EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS
Means any contribution, other than Roth Elective Deferrals, made to the Plan by or on behalf of a Participant that is included in the Participant’s gross income in the year in which made and that is maintained under a separate account to which earnings and losses are allocated.
NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE
Means the age specified in the Adoption Agreement. If the Employer enforces a mandatory retirement age, the Normal Retirement Age is the lesser of that mandatory age or the age specified in the Adoption Agreement. If no age is specified in the Adoption Agreement, the Normal Retirement Age shall be age 59½.
OWNER–EMPLOYEE
Means an individual who is a sole proprietor, or who is a partner owning more than 10 percent of either the capital or the profits interest of the partnership.
PARTICIPANT
Means any Employee or former Employee of the Employer who has met the Plan’s age and service requirements, has entered the Plan, and who is or may become eligible to receive a benefit of any type from this Plan or whose Beneficiary may be eligible to receive any such benefit. PARTICIPANT’S BENEFIT
Means the Participant’s Individual Account as of the last Valuation Date in the calendar year immediately preceding the Distribution Calendar Year (valuation calendar year) increased by the amount of any contributions made and allocated or Forfeitures allocated to the Participant’s Individual Account as of dates in the valuation calendar year after the Valuation Date and decreased by distributions made in the valuation calendar year after the Valuation Date. The Participant’s Benefit for the valuation calendar year includes any amounts rolled over or transferred to the Plan either in the valuation calendar year or in the Distribution Calendar Year if distributed or transferred in the valuation calendar year.